German Man dies after being stabbed in backside with poisoned umbrella

NewsCore via myfoxdc.com ^ | May 11, 2012 | Staff

[LucyT]

"Dimethylmercury can kill you from merely inhaling the fumes. - Once. - It's no stretch of the imagination that mercury poisoning killed this man."

[stars & stripes forever]

Dimethylmercury can kill you from merely inhaling the fumes
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Is this the same mercury that is in the new improved government light bulb?

[BenLurkin]

The old poisoned umbrella trick!

[dfwgator]

Georgi Markov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov

[x]

What is it with Germans and backsides?

[x]

What is it with Germans and backsides?

[Olog-hai]

No it isn’t. Not possible to use something that rates a “4” on both the “health” and “flammability” NFPA 704 chart in something like a light bulb anyhow; heat source would make it explode too readily, that is if the fumes don’t kill you first. The CFLs contain elemental mercury, which is bad enough although not acutely poisonous (all fluorescent lights have mercury vapor, BTW, even the long tubes).

[Eye of Unk]

I’m surprised there hasn’t been an implementation of off the shelf mini radio controlled choppers combined with either an aerosol spray like a crop duster or even a high pressure delivery dece like an Airsoft gun.

Those small RC choppers are silent, can be flown from a smartphone, just buzz your target and gas them with something that leaves no trace.

[LucyT]

[rdl6989]

Smells like KGB to me.

[GeronL]

Sounds like something from the KGB. The bandaid on the face is so memorable, you won’t remember the face. That is its purpose.

wow.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[bgill]

Does this cause one to collapse with a bright red face with white around the forehead? Does it mimic arsenic?

[little jeremiah]

Interesting about the bandaid. Could be some other unusual marker like a big tattoo (fake), bandanna, facial hair, etc.

[NonValueAdded]

or Karen Wetterhahn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn
OMG

[GeronL]

Yes, some huge glaring trait that would get all the attention during the very brief encounter.

[R. Scott]

IIRC, a Soviet agent took out a target in London using an umbrella point and ricin poison.

[Alas Babylon!]

So the question I would have is why him? I mean the German man who was killed. What are the facts about him? What did he do? What did he know? What was his position, station in life? Who did he know?

[mikrofon]

Ich bin ein Bumbreller

[mikrofon]

No worries -- this outrage will be

avenged....